Supporting Effective Transfer Pricing with Essential Analytics
Address today’s transfer pricing challenges with comprehensive data and analytics that comply with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines.
Master the complexity of pricing cross-border transactions.
Increased regulatory scrutiny and compliance complexities require all professionals involved with transfer pricing issues to enhance their workflows. Whether you are a tax authority, a corporation, or a professional services firm assisting a corporation, you need to ensure that transfer pricing regulations are being followed appropriately to minimize tax risks.
Streamline and strengthen your credit risk assessments with a suite of essential analytical solutions, including an integrated transfer pricing framework, to ensure that intercompany loans are priced at arm’s length as if operating in a competitive market.
Address the challenges posed by existing OECD regulations with extensive capabilities.
Tax authorities can access standardised, reliable tools and methodologies to deal with the complexity of monitoring cross-border transactions and effectively assess transfer pricing compliance.
Corporations can address the challenge of ensuring compliance with transfer pricing regulations across multiple jurisdictions, while optimizing their tax positions.
Professional services firms can keep pace with evolving regulations and increasing data challenges to provide value-added transfer pricing services for their clients.
Refresh your pricing approach with essential analytics solutions.
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Access Detailed Financial Data
Tap Into Our Flagship Platform
Access deep information on companies and markets worldwide via our unrivalled web-based platform for comprehensive analytics and essential insights.
Leverage Robust Workflow Tools
Power your analysis and modeling with extensive corporate and financial data, along with productivity-enhancing analytical tools, Microsoft Office Plug-ins, and pre-formatted templates.
Obtain Profiles for 52M+ Private Companies
Dig deep with aggregated and standardized global private company data that is continually expanding.
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Carryout a Thorough Credit Assessment
Determine How an Entity Would Be Perceived in the Open Market.
Leverage our Credit Analytics models and comprehensive financials to compute credit scores for subsidiaries and affiliates.
Assess Appropriate Comparables
Easily screen for comparable companies and use a Plug-in to dynamically pull comparable company’s full P&Ls into Excel to calculate profit level indicators and inner quartile ranges.
Implement Methods to Monitor and Manage Risks
Create a credit risk dashboard for ongoing surveillance and analysis of credit risk by country, sector, and company.
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Consider Qualitative Factors
Understand the Drivers of Credit Risk Scores
Assess both quantitative and qualitative factors underlying credit risk scores* to determine differences based on non-financial factors, such as the degree of diversification or strength of the management team.
Review Business Credit Reports
Access RiskGauge’s comprehensive business credit reports that cover 50+ million private and public companies worldwide.
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Evaluate Economic Conditions
Evaluate Economic Conditions
Perform Macro Scenario Analysis based on Economic and Country Risk (ECR) scenarios. These scenarios are updated quarterly and are based on ongoing macroeconomic global events, making sure relevant economic circumstances are taking into account.
Stress testing: added capability to create your own set of conditions to further test the credit risk and resilience of a counterparty.
Perform Scenario Analysis
Utilize both off-the-shelf and custom scenarios to evaluate different possibilities for economic growth or contraction.
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Look at Implicit Parental Support & Loan Level Assessment
Evaluate the Impact of Parental & Government (PGS) Ties
Leverage detailed financials for both public and private companies to see how the financial health of a parent company can affect the credit rating of a borrower.
Use the Issue Rating Where Available
Activate our credit risk pricing model to generate issuer and issue credit risk assessments and use the issue rating to price a transaction, which is most appropriate.
Look at Loss Given Default (LGD)
Utilize our LossStats approach that returns loss and recovery estimates for companies’ debt obligations globally to zero in on the LGD for an issuance.
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Determine Arm’s Length Pricing
Construct a Yield Curve
Use the final Credit Risk Score along with our Credit Risk Pricing tool, to calculate the All-In Yield and calculate the All-In Yield Curve, leveraging from two complementary approaches. Our methodologies harness comprehensive datasets to construct robust Corporate Yield Curves. The first approach taps into data directly from major buy-side firms, credit trading desks, and trade reporting venues, ensuring broad coverage across various credit term structures, currencies, sectors, and rating categories. The second methodology utilizes data from the GSAC Bond Sector Curve Pricing Data, offering a broader universe of underlying bonds and extensive coverage across sectors, tenors, and currencies in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.
Deconstruct Each Curve
Further leverage our corporate yield curve offering to drill down and view the underlying bond constituents and prices used in the construction of each curve.
Estimate Interest Charges or Guarantee Fees
Utilize transparent methodologies to identify market interest charges for affiliates across sectors and geographies, and benchmark this against publicly available data for other borrowers with the same credit rating for loans with sufficiently similar terms and conditions.
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Benefit From Workflow Integration of All Above
Credit Risk Pricing is a unique integrated solution designed for tax authorities, MNEs, and professional service firms to easily handle transfer pricing and company valuation issues. Available on the S&P Capital IQ platform, Credit Risk Pricing enables users to assess a company's creditworthiness, create a stand-alone credit score, and find comparable yields and a defensible interest rate in one interconnected system that aligns with the OECD guidelines.
Our Insights
Essential Transfer Pricing Solutions
Our trusted corporate financials, industry-leading analytical tools, and flexible delivery options streamline and transform multiple workflows, so you can perfect your decision-making and ensure compliance.
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No matter if you work for a tax authority, a professional services firm, or a multinational enterprise, S&P Global Market Intelligence offers data, analytics, and customized solutions to enhance the quality and reliability of your tax and transfer pricing outcomes.